Heavy conservative bias could be an even bigger part of Seattle’s news landscape thanks to a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Baltimore’s conservative media giant, Sinclair Broadcast Group, could take over Q13 Fox. Sinclair already owns KOMO 4, and has pushed the station’s newsroom in a conservative direction.Continue reading Seattle’s Media Future Could Hold Less News, More Conservatism→

The Nguyen family represents all of us and our families who have migrated from another country and tried to adapt to the harsh realities of American culture, institutionalization, and the privatization of family happiness. For immigrant mothers and fathers, the burden of taking on a new life does not fall solely on them but is passed to their children as well, putting the children into the parental role. Immigrant children become the conduit for communication between the outside society and the privatized economy of the home, and they feel the strain of this responsibility almost every day.Continue reading Immigrant Parents Rely on Their Children to Navigate the U.S. Socioeconomic System→

October 18th – 26th is the Emerald’s Rainmaker Membership Drive! In order to continue producing the Emerald, we need 500 new donors at an average donation of $12/month.Will you join us?

Interview by Erin Okuno

Last Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at a gala dinner in Bellevue for the Washington Policy Center, a free-market think tank based in Washington. As the fundraiser was underway, about 1,500 people protested in an action organized by the Equity in Education Coalition and partners.Continue reading Rallying to Protect Public Education→

At the end of September, environmental justice organization Got Green hosted a private event at the Southside Commons filled with an unlikely bunch. The audience consisted of business leaders, nonprofits, government agencies and young leaders in the community.

Each year more and more cities are celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day and rightly so.

Columbus did not discover the Americas as many sovereign Native nations were already living here on Turtle Island (also known as the United States). His arrival was followed by diseases, which decimated Native communities, and left a painful history of colonialism and genocide. We should question why we would ever celebrate someone who left such devastation as his legacy!Continue reading Indigenous Peoples Day, Everyday→

This year marks the golden anniversary of Radical Women, a grassroots socialist feminist organization based in Columbia City. The organization was founded on the revolutionary idea that the leadership of working-class women, especially women of color, is essential to social change. This idea is still fundamental to what Radical Women believes and does today.Continue reading Local Socialist Feminist Group Still Kicking at 50→